Re: X2GU : New GM bank for DreamBlaster X2

Posted on 2021-05-05, 08:05

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b) Who else uses chips from Dream ICs in their products ? Are the likes of Casio, Yamaha and other big names doing so without disclosing it ? Yamaha is very unlikely, because Dream's chips do not support XG. Casio is also unlikely because they like to reuse their own sound banks (in fact one of the …

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Re: X2GS : Waveblaster board with dual soundbank support, official Dream/Roland licensed GS bank

Posted on 2021-04-25, 07:28

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Am I correct in assuming that the hardware is essentially the same as the X2, except instead of having 64MB of Flash memory for an updatable sound bank it splits it into 2 banks (16MB preloaded GS bank and 48MB updatable)? Yes It has different firmware, different memory organisation, .. but …

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Re: Trident videocard Drivers - ISA/VESA

Posted on 2021-04-25, 07:11

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Hey guys i spent some time searching online for many of the drivers for the Trident videocards. First i thought it was going to be a VERY EASY job,trident is well known, but turned out it was almost impossible. See the driver packs from vogons and many other sites are incomplete, these cards used …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-04-24, 17:48

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Picked up this Sony Vaio desktop recently, it's in pretty good shape aside from missing that front panel that seems to be rarer than a Voodoo 5 nowadays. It's also missing the hard drive caddy but I imagine that's a lot easier to get. https://i.imgur.com/Ksqhb54.jpg https://i.imgur.com/xeHzm6m.jpg …

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Re: Sigma Designs RealMagic complete productlist, supported games and drivers

Posted on 2021-04-21, 15:24

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The NEC PC98 card is likely C-BUS format (PC98 ISA equivalent). Using "PC98" as the expansion slot name is confusing, because there are multiple types of PC98 expansion slots (C-BUS, PC98 local bus, PCI, the laptop expansion slots...).

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Re: Synthesizers that came with video game music

Posted on 2021-04-21, 14:38

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As I know, MT-90u is development of MT-90s. Could you share your experience with them? I got MT-90s just for fun in low price. Also I found on the YT demo video with them and it sounds not bad. I think the 90s and 90u have different generations of the sound source. While they're nowhere as bad as …

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Re: Looking for a japanese vintage computers forum

Posted on 2021-04-20, 19:41

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Tried shoving the Ratoc website through the Wayback machine? Also, those drivers may not exist for PC-AT machines, as NEC PC98 was the more common standard for early DOS and Windows machines in Japan (those use the same basic components such as CPUs etc, but the architecture itself is very different …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2021-04-18, 20:20

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I found this combo in the dumpster here at the apartment complex I'm living at. I've gotten as far as installing the sound card and so far it seems fine, not sure about how I'll go about testing the box. The drivers should be available on the web, although it's possible that you won't find them at …

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Re: Sound Blaster Live - how to activate 5.1?

Posted on 2021-04-16, 05:39

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Three outputs? Shouldn't it have five? maxresdefault.jpg I think you need a TOSLink cable for the orange output. https://www.amazon.ca/Digital-Audio-Cable-Optical-Mini-Phone/dp/B0002JFN1A No, you have the top output which is digital out... uses a special breakout if I remember correctly. I have a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-03-27, 12:55

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Brand new, sealed in box VCR and some brand new cassettes (Hi8 and betas). Just need a decent tube flat TV and I can reimgine some of my youth.. Awesome! I'd love to tinker around with VHS stuff again but most of these systems are pretty unreliable as there is so much cheap fault-prone mechanics …

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Re: The middle mouse button, was it ever useful?

Posted on 2021-03-26, 18:51

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I think the big problem was that the Microsoft Mouse standard only supported two buttons, and three buttons required a mouse that supported Mouse Systems Mode. Software that required three buttons would have locked out the two-button userbase. Software that required a three-button mouse either used …

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Re: 486-VIP-IO Board doesn't recognize Am486 DX4-100 (100NV8T) CPU

Posted on 2021-03-25, 20:53

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There are stories about erasing these chips with a dentist's x-ray gun. While the x-rays are able to penetrate the plastic case, and are also able to erase the EPROM die inside, the x-rays also do a lot of colateral damage to the die, ...and probably your body too, if you don't know what you're …

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Re: How is Simon the Sorcerer supposed to sound like on a Roland MT-32?

Posted on 2021-03-17, 06:55

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I see the MT32 has a reverb effect build in. Maybe that's enabled on the Youtube videos (kinda sounds like it), and not on yours? Apparently first and second generation modules behave differently with regards to a bug that involves that effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_MT-32#Digital_ …

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Re: Yamaha Sequence Object Linking (SOL) 2

Posted on 2021-03-17, 06:50

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Yesterday I found this old thread (you might have seen it already) .... I suspect that the S-YGX soft synths weren't actually discontinued, but that the technology was transferred to a company that Yamaha bought back in 2005: Steinberg . .... in any way, there are no S-YGX synths made after S-YGX50 …

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Re: What were the best ISA audio card options for an audio professional in 1996?

Posted on 2021-03-17, 06:46

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and finally when I think 95 and music I think Diablo, found this little article where Matt Uelmen briefly mentions his setup, doesn't list the soundcard though. https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3075/audio_content_for_diablo_and_.php?print=1 Probably because music would more likely be recorded …

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Re: List of rarest PC soundcards

Posted on 2021-03-14, 18:15

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unless you really want to build a retro DAW ^^ Or use one as a digital mixer . ;) It's actually quite ironic that older hardware-based DAWs and multitrack digital recorders that include digital mixer functionality are actually often less expensive than dedicated digital mixer of the same or older …

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Re: How is Simon the Sorcerer supposed to sound like on a Roland MT-32?

Posted on 2021-03-14, 17:55

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I have read that the youtube compression algorithm can somewhat change how music sounds (equalizer issues...). I've noticed myself that certain songs have much more bass on Youtube than when I play them through my stereo directly from the CD, even when they come from official channels on Youtube. …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2021-03-08, 07:13

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I've used the same drive for over a decade and that's the only way I ever closed it :p the mechanism is still working just fine. they were made to be used like that after all, just don't jam it in with force, a slight push is enough and it'll close automatically. Listening to the noises this drive …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2021-03-07, 21:46

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Not exactly a dumpster find, but I was given a Dell i660 tower with a Core i5 processor... ...because Windows 10 killed itself by wiping the C:/-drive during an upgrade. Perhaps it is becoming self-aware? Back in the day you needed a stupid user or a virus to cause such an event... :D I still need …

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Re: Timbres of Heaven

Posted on 2021-03-05, 16:58

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by yawetaG

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dnewhous wrote on 2021-03-04, 16:22: It's supposed to place the extracted files in the same directory. I guess you would call it a self extracting archive. Or it is a virus/piece of malware disguised as a self-extracting archive...

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